A decade of
purpose-led innovation.
Ten years ago, a small team in Perth set out to solve one very specific problem: to give surgeons a way to see what they had, until then, only been able to feel. Ziva has grown into a Tissue Intelligence™ company with the intention to solve this very problem, and beyond.
Ziva’s QME technology — quantitative micro-elastography emerged from a decade of foundational research at UWA and the Harry Perkins Institute, and was translated into a surgical platform through OncoRes' proprietary engineering and development. An exclusive commercial license and 44 patent families protect the technology, the probe design and the system.
OUR JOURNEY
A decade of
purpose‑led innovation.
What began as a way to read the margins of a breast cancer surgery has evolved into something much more impactful: Tissue Intelligence™. Tissue Intelligence™ using QME technology was developed to assess the tissue directly inside the patient during surgery, helping surgeons decide what to remove and what to preserve.
WHAT GUIDES US
Our why.
Purpose
We bring light to the invisible, positively impacting people and their families, in the moment it matters most.
Mission
Real-time clarity on what to remove and what to preserve, the first time.
Vision
Life, uninterrupted.
OUR JOURNEY
Our story so far.
2013
The idea takes root: the technology behind Ziva is discovered, built on a decade of research at UWA and the Harry Perkins Institute.
2016
OncoRes Medical is founded in Perth.
Since then
A decade of science and clinical validation, including the MARGIN trial, proving real impact for surgeons and patients.
2026
OncoRes Medical becomes Ziva Surgical: tissue intelligence, where and when it matters most.
What's next
Extending tissue intelligence beyond breast cancer, wherever a surgeon needs to see what they can't otherwise feel.
BORN IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Innovation that could
only come from Perth.
As one of the world's most isolated major cities, Perth innovates because there's no choice. Separated from the rest of the world by thousands of kilometres of ocean and desert, Western Australians have long turned isolation into an advantage: necessity fuelled this state's ingenuity long before anyone called it innovation.
The people who built Ziva didn't have the luxury of waiting for someone else to solve the problem in front of them, so they set out to solve it themselves.
And so it is with real‑time tissue assessment, in the moment it matters most. Powered by Ziva. Only in the Elora® System.
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OUR VALUES
Choose your own adventure
Kind Hearts
Teach someone to fish
Make waves
“Ziva means light. It names exactly what we do: bring light to what a surgeon cannot otherwise see, in the moment it matters most.”
A platform for Tissue Intelligence™, not
just one device
TECHNOLOGY
Elora®, our first system focused on breast cancer, is designed to give surgeons real-time assessment of the tissue inside the surgical cavity – translating the surgeons sense of touch into objective microscale imaging.
Elora® is the first expression of a larger capability we call Tissue Intelligence™. The same science that reads breast tissue today is built to extend further, into other solid cancers, as each is proven through evidence.
BUILT ON QME
Quantitative Micro-Elastography, developed over a decade of research at the University of Western Australia and the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. The science is published; Ziva owns the technology built from it.
“Ziva means light. It names exactly what we do: bring light to what a surgeon cannot otherwise see, in the moment it matters most.”
BUILT ON QME
Quantitative Micro-Elastography, developed over a decade of research at the University of Western Australia and the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. The science is published; Ziva owns the technology built from it.
IN THREE STEPS, A RECAP
From a university spin-off
to tissue intelligence.
University spin-off
2013 · UWA & the Harry Perkins Institute
OncoRes Medical
Ziva Surgical
2016 · A decade of science & clinical validation
2026 · Tissue intelligence, at an inflection point
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Ziva means bright, radiant, light: exactly what we're aspiring to bring to the moment a surgeon needs to see what they can't otherwise feel.
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